{"id":24268,"date":"2023-04-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/create-a-custom-connector-for-your-web-api-from-within-visual-studio\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:45:54","slug":"create-a-custom-connector-for-your-web-api-from-within-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/create-a-custom-connector-for-your-web-api-from-within-visual-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Custom Connector for your Web API from within Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m excited to announce that Power Platform is now a connected service in <a data-id=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/vs\/preview\/\" data-type=\"URL\" href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/vs\/preview\/\">Visual Studio 2022 Preview<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Code-first developers will now be able to create both APIs and connectors from within Microsoft Visual Studio, thereby minimizing context switching when developing custom connectors for Microsoft Power Platform.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s explore how to create a simple Power apps canvas app from an ASP.NET Web API project.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create a new ASP.NET web API.<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Create a new ASP.NET Web API project in Visual Studio. 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This sample returns random numbers as temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"graphical user interface, text, application\" class=\"wp-image-24271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/VS-Project.gif\"\/><figcaption>Create a ASP.NET Core Web API Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add Power Platform as a connected service.<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By adding Power Platform as a service dependency, you can update an existing custom connector, or create a new one from your API.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Animated Gif Image\" class=\"wp-image-24272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/connected-service.gif\"\/><figcaption>Connected Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visual Studio leverages <a data-id=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/aspnet\/core\/test\/dev-tunnels?view=aspnetcore-7.0#create-a-tunnel\" data-type=\"URL\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/aspnet\/core\/test\/dev-tunnels?view=aspnetcore-7.0#create-a-tunnel\">dev tunnels feature<\/a> to expose your local running API to a public endpoint. 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